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The world’s best marketing professors share their latest research insights and share tips and tricks for marketers, entrepreneurs, and business executives hoping to be at the cutting edge of marketing innovation.
The Ivory Tower can be a lonely place sometimes, but as academic journals place a premium on field studies and engagement with real consumers in actual business contexts, partnering with friendly practitioners has never been more attractive. In this episode, our very own Kelley Cours Anderson, Ph.D., is joined by Laura Eddy, the Vice President of Research and Insights at Realtor.com. With over 25 years of consumer insights experience with some of the world’s biggest brands – like Amazon and Walmart – Laura makes the case for the relevance of marketing research and consumer insights in a compelling way. Hear how academic research informs the work of a seasoned practitioner, and how those working in the industry can inspire our research and liven up our ivory tower in this episode of Consumer Insights 101.
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